Using microscopic probe means , i.e. recording or reproducing by means directly

Official title: using microscopic probe means {, i.e. recording or reproducing by means directly associated with the tip of a microscopic electrical probe as used in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy [STM] or Atomic Force Microscopy [AFM] for inducing physical or electrical perturbations in a recording medium; Record carriers or media specially adapted for such transducing of information (marking using electrical current B41M5/20; measuring roughness or irregularity of surfaces G01B7/34; details of scanning-probe microscopes G01Q)}

G11B9/14 (Using microscopic probe means , i.e. recording or reproducing by means directly) appears on 903 US grants and 683 published applications in this corpus.